Data Automation and the Changing Face of Spatial Data Management

Mapping is a practice that has been undertaken for many hundreds of years. 

There was a time when Burke and Wills traipsed through the Australian desert country, manually mapping the Australian terrain, to make maps available to the community and avid explorers. 

Today, mapping and the collection of map data, is highly technical with the use of sophisticated equipment to obtain the same end result – a map. The use of electronic GPS units in the bushfire recovery efforts, GNSS CORS Networks to undertake precision farming, and remotely sensed elevation models for coastline mapping, all demonstrate how far mapping, and the management of the map data, has come.

Managing the Supply Chain for Reliable Spatial Information

PSMA Australia Limited is an unlisted public company, limited by shares. It was established under Australia’s corporation’s law and is wholly owned by the State and Territory governments, and the Australian Government (collectively called Jurisdictions) each with a single share. PSMA Australia’s primary goal is to coordinate the development and maintenance of fundamental national datasets using the information resources of government and increasingly, non-government entities.